Humility

                                                         

                         Being humble and putting on great etiquette of humility is the very innermost craving of anybody who aspires to become a good human being. A genuinely humble human being is dear in the eyes of everyone but nurturing an arrogant behaviour and not being humble always makes one stumble along this phase we call human life. A world war II veteran turns himself into a humble Christian missionary when he escapes a near death attempt on his life by a slight graze of a rifle bullet across his belly. Maybe, God instruments a bright boy of a missionary school to undergo great upheavels during his schooling years because the sudden development of the inflation of ego would not have suited him and the surroundings around him. The world scenario depends a lot on the nature of all the individuals that inhabit it. The distribution of an equilibrium state of human nature is what God wishes to see in human beings. When the individual human nature is balanced, the nature of the mass and of the planet on the whole is balanced and this is how there is sustenance of peace on planet earth.

                         We have a Lionel Messi who displays great acts of humility when he says that being a good human being is important  to him  than winning the best soccer player trophy in the world. We also had someone like J.Krishnamurti who was the image of  a perfect God and was so humble in spiritual nature that he accepted his whole life as the Will of God, even one of his close disciples fleeing with his entire fund of close to one billion dollars. A great human being like Lionel Messi doesn’t even have to be Enlightened to put on great acts of humility, he is already highly Enlightened without undergoing the spiritual growth process. In reality, it is the superhuman humble quality of a J.Krishnamurti which God wishes to see in human beings, because the virtuous qualities such as humility developed from the spiritual growth process is of an everlasting nature whereas the humble qualities expressed from the material nature is very superficial. Humility developed by plunging the depths of the human soul and rejuvenated by the powers of spiritual wisdom is the authentic and right method because soul awareness which restores humility becomes intact onto our soul nature twenty four hours on a continuous stretch. Spiritual humility and material  humility are poles apart because of their permanent  and temporary nature.

                         I had gone to a fortune teller years back and was not amazed when she disclosed a great revelation. She relayed that I had a great downfall on life solely for the reason that I was a great egoist in the past. I was not an egoist in my heyday but let’s just see what the Infinite Witness does  for her great leela or play to be sustained. According to one of my wise friends, the system of check and balance is going on a regular basis in the Universe. For example, when an egoist like Ashwas Thapa gets born God devise’s ways to check and keep his ego in balance so that he does not set a bad example to others and that he abstains from harming the individual, the society and the world by his inflated ego. That is why God makes him suffer a nervous breakdown with an additional onslaught of two decades of Paranoid Schizophrenia and what does God give back in return? The Divine Mother takes away from him his confidence, his temporary happiness, his medical career away from him and still gives him back in abundance than before with the restoration of the greatest source of happiness on planet earth and with the establishment of  a tame and humble nature adequated by the reinvigoration of a fully awake soul. Now, do we see the mechanism of check and balance the Infinite Witness has established in the Cosmos.

                         The first signs of humility is planted when we start perceiving the Omnipresent spirit of God in every living particle on the planet. The ability to perceive everybody and everything on equal footing as pure consciousness or God is the first step in establishing ourselves on the path of humility. Realising  that “We are a ray of God” is the next stage in perceiving ourselves and everybody on planet earth as an embodiment of God and the next step in being humble. The ability to see God in every living particle automatically establishes peace on the planet with the ever building momentum of humility and as the feeling of Universal Brotherhood gets rejuvenated into our souls. Humility becomes our visiting card once we are established as fully awake souls with the capacity of a fully restored awareness. The nature of humility reaches the ultimate peak when we are restored with full awareness and are capacitated with our potential to perceive not only planet earth but the entire manifested Universe as a leela or play of the Divine Mother. The fully restored awareness  of  a Self-Realised human being is the valid stamp at one of the final checkpoints of the assembly line that  you have turned into someone as humble as J.Krishnamurti.

                               The qualities of a humble person are a phonyless and an egoless state. In other words one who is spiritually humble or Self-Realised is very very genuine.The heights of humility is measured by the criteria of being a phonyless and an egolessly driven individual. So if you come across a Self-Realised human being who is object-referred and not Self-referred, realize that such a person is not Self-Realised at all.

                     The Bhagavad Gita says,

       “He who withdraws himself from actions, but ponders on their pleasures in his heart.

                         He is deceiving  himself, and can only be called a hypocrite.”

                              So naturally,if I have the nature of not getting carried away by the sexuality of a woman but by her inner beauty and qualities like getting attracted to someone who had the custom of frequenting the Pashupatinath temple every now and then and who was a great devotee of Lord Shiva, it is still being attracted by something. So I wouldn’t want to be a phony by pretending that I am not attracted to women at all. So the best measure from preventing myself from living the life of a hypocrite would be tying the knot with the former devotee of Lord Shiva and have a dozen  children by her who will be all around my deathbed crying,"Daddy,please don’t die."

                             As far as the egoistic tendencies are concerned I may have slandered all  the atheists to the very extreme but that is only because there has to be someone who has to take the giant leap forward to establish Gods eternal theories and do away with the false, atheistic and Non-Being theories forever. The atheists have to be bundled off and shown the door out of planet earth because they are trying to propogate and establish a false Non-Being theory which has no validity on planet earth. It doesn’t bother me if I lose  my reputation in the process even if it means facing one of the most haughtiest Non-Being radical eye in the eye because the false and non-existent Non-Existence theory has to be done away with forever and that God’s eternal theories need to be established to rule the roost in the world. And I would’nt want to inflate my ego and think I have died a martyr by sacrificing my life on the frying pan because I don’t want to convert an egoless state and the most prized God awareness into one moment of a pseudo and glorified ego.

                           Humility developed through human nature is temporary whereas modesty developed through the spiritual growth process is of a permanent nature. In other words, spiritual virtue is genuine whereas human virtues are superficial. Establishing ourselves as meditation practitioners and fully restoring our dormant human awareness is the very first step in establishing in us the permanent and genuine quality of humility.
                                                (This article is the copyright of Ashwas Thapa)